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Location mapThe Oldham to Rochdale motorway isn't exactly a photo stop on the tour bus. It isn't really very impressive at all. Unless you're a fan of deep cuttings, you might not even notice that you'd been on a motorway, because it's very short too.

The most interesting point is the M62 interchange, which has "provision for a future flyover". Since this was built in the 1970s, the chances of that flyover being built have shrunk so as to be almost invisible, and what we are left with is a big square roundabout with A627(M) traffic stopping at the traffic lights. The traffic lights wouldn't, of course, be needed if they'd build the damned flyover. Perhaps the lack of urgency to connect its two halves together is explained by the 1962 Selnec Roads Plan, which describes the motorway as two seperate schemes: the Broadway Extension (Broadway being the A664 leading away from the motorway's southern end) and the Rochdale Spur.

Despite being rather dull, this motorway manages a tiny little same-number spur to connect with the A664. Or does it? Pathetic Motorways has some evidence to suggest that the spur is (or was) numbered A6138(M).

Factfile

Start Oldham (A627)
Finish Rochdale (A627)
Passes None
Length 6 miles
Terminates None
Spurs None
Meets M62

Images

Views of the A627(M) from on and off the road. If you have a photo to contribute, contact me.

There are currently no images in this section.

Construction Timeline

When the various parts of the A627(M) were built, listed in chronological order.

Open Section
1972 Entire motorway

Exit List

All the junctions and destinations along the route.

Junction   Northbound               Southbound
Rochdale
Sudden
(A58)







(A58)
NORTH
Signalised Crossroads







(A664)
N/A








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Lower Place
Milnrow
(A664)

Retail Park
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(M62 J20) Manchester
Bolton
M62 Image (M60 Image)
M62 Roundabout interchange M62 Leeds
Hull
M62 Image


Leeds
Hull
M62 Image
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Manchester
Bolton
M62 Image (M60 Image)
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Castleton
Middleton
(A664)
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(A664) Roundabout InterchangeRoundabout Interchange Castleton
Middleton
(A664)
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Roundabout Interchange
A663
SOUTH
A663

A627









Manchester
Failsworth
A663 (M60 Image)

Royton, Shaw
A663

Oldham
A627

Chadderton
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With thanks to Chris McKenna and Paul Martin for information in this section.